charles walter



(ModeL) W. C. WALTER.

WALL PAPER. No, 268,964. Patented Dec. 12', 1882.,

w ITNESSES: 11W T0 ATTORNEY N. FETCH. Pluto-M, Wnlinm D. C.

- UNITED STATES PATENT "OFFIcE.

W. CHARLES WALTER, OF, NEW YORK, N. Y.

WALL-PAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,964, dated December12, 1882.

Application filed January 24, 1881.

. improved kind of wall-paper, to which a rich and plastic effect isimparted by coating and decorating the surface with raised ornaments.

Heretol'ore a kind of plastic ornamentation of wallpapers has beenobtained by employing flock, which, however, is expensive, as itconsists of short fibers of wool, and is mostly imported. My inventionis designed to substitute therefor cheaper materials, and to produce amore variegated efl'ect than with flock.

The invention consists ot'a wall-paper coated or decorated withproperly-colored sand, sawdust, and ground glass, which are uniformlydistributed over the portions to beornameuted.

hi the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a top view of myimproved wallpaper; and Fig. 2, a vertical transverse section of thesame on line w :10, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

1 represents paper or any other fabric, and A B G the raised ornamentalportions, which consist of properly-prepared sand, sawdust, and groundglass. is accomplished in the customary manner by first laying on acoating of varnish, then distributingthereon thesand,sawdust,and groundglass. The sand and sawdust are mixed with common sized colors andapplied in dry state.

The ground glass is coated with shellac-varnish and a bronze or othercolor, and then dislhe coating of the'paper (Model.)

tributed over the varnished portions. The

sawdust is screened after having been colored, so that only the finestparts are used, it being designed as a substitute for the flock. Thecolored sand imparts an embroidery-like character to the ornamentsproduced, especially when laid upon a ground of colored glass. By theground glass abronze-like or metallic coating is obtained, which is lessexpensive than" bronze colors alone. A wall-paper of rich andcharacteristic appearance is finally obtained, which combines theeffects of one or more of the substances employed.

Having thus described my invention, I claim paper previously coated withvarnish, as and for the purpose described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname, in presence of two witnesses, this 13th day of January, 188i.

w. oHAELEs WALTER.

Witnesses:

PAUL GoEPEL, CARL KARP.

